Inter came top of Serie A

Inter is the new leader in Serie A after shifting from Napoli`s top. The `Nerazzurri` beat 3:1 on their visit to Cagliari on Sardinia in a match of the 14th round and gathered 36 points - 1 more than the current leader Napoli, who plays with Udinese on Sunday. The score was found by Mauro Icardi in the 29th minute with his 14th season. In the 54th minute, Marcello Brozovic doubled the visitors` advance. Cagliari returned to the match in the 70th minute when Leonardo Pavouletti cut off with a blow from the air. In the 83rd minute, Icardi chilled the hosts` passions with their second goal in the match.

The Sardinian match started with a very active game of the hosts and Inter nearly got a goal in the 16th minute. At that time, only the phenomenal intervention of Samir Handanovic kept zero. Cagliari organized a perfect attack, finishing with a close shot of Pavlovi, but Handanovic managed to clear the ball into the corner. The hosts continued to be more active, and Inter acted rather cautiously in anticipation of his own moment.

He came in the 29th minute. Candree took a tough ball to the right of Raphael`s door, centered on the door, the ball came to Perisic, who managed to get her back to Irvardi and the Argentine with her first touch in the match managed to find. Just minutes later, Icardi found himself again in an excellent opportunity to score after the Cagliari goalkeeper`s crash broke out and missed the ball but failed to make a nice finish. Inter made his second blow to the match at the start of the second half, taking advantage of Cagliari`s attempt to return the goal. In the 54th minute, Bozovich scored as a reserve after a second counterattack of the Nerazzur. The more active Cagliari game paid off in the 70th minute when Farago centered in Inter`s penalty box and with Leonardo Pavlovi`s shot from the air, `hand-shot` Handanovich.

In the 82nd minute, Icardi scored his second goal in the match by fixed football contacts after being back in the right spot after being back from Candurea. The hosts claimed that Inter`s footballer was ambushing and requested video reprograms, but it turned out that the attack was regular.